Assistant District Attorney Jonathan Borle previously alleged that McKenna siphoned the millions to spend on himself and his gal pal, Duni Zenaye, then the CEO of AstZen Group, a business consulting firm.
Elkay Plastics, a packaging manufacturer and distributor, had contacted AstZen Group to buy 500,000 boxes of medical-grade latex gloves to use as PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, and placed the $4.45 million into an escrow account run by McKenna.
The attorney in January 2021 had agreed to hold the funds in escrow until AstZen Group shipped the gloves — but by April, he had drained the account dry, according to the indictment against him.
McKenna used the money to “benefit his personal life” and further a “romantic relationship” he had with Zenaye, who was not charged in the case, according to prosecutors.
A lot of young men are out there saying to themselves: I spent four years in college, didn't get laid, and have $200k in debt that I might never pay off ... I should've been a criminal.
All lawyers are criminals.
Tell me you're a retired lawyer without telling me you're a retired lawyer why don't ya.
Man, I sometimes wonder if historians will look back at the COVID era and see a turning point in the moral decay of society. Not only was so much money printed, with no monitoring, but morally coercive language was actually used to justify it. It was like a perfect storm of moral grandstanding, coercive force, and unchecked flow of money